Pork Tenderloin with Grilled Pineapple Salsa
We are going tropical this week over at the Back Burner. I tossed around a few ideas for a recipe, from coconut curries to grilled salmon with mangoes. Then I decided to share one of our favorite summer meals with you, pork tenderloin and a spicy salsa.
I usually serve a grilled or oven roasted tenderloin, during the summer, with a roasted peach salsa. It is a amazing, but not tropical. I am taking you away to somewhere warm and exotic. Let’s pretend you are sitting at a long table on the beach, with your toes dangling in the sand, and salty air is wetting your appetite for something … flavorful. This dish will be perfect.
I adore grilling my fruit before making salsas or chutneys. It gives the finished dish so much depth. Grilling pineapple is heavenly and it comes out lightly caramelized and just slightly sweet. It really adds a great twist to the otherwise spicy salsa. For this particular recipe I pan-grill the fruit as well as the jalapeño and red onion. I do not use any oils or citrus, just smokey fruit, vegetables and some cool cilantro.
You can grill the tenderloin or slowly cook it in the oven as I did. I wanted the meat to be very moist, so I pan seared it before putting it into the oven, where I cooked the meat at a very low heat for a long time (refer to the recipe for cooking times). It came out very moist with a nice crisp crust. The smokey pineapple salsa was perfect with it.
Denise believes anything can be made at home as long as you have a little patience, and time. All of her recipes are made using fresh and seasonal ingredients. Her recipes have been featured on Eat Boutique, the Mushroom Channel, Saveur.com, Foodies of the World, PBS and Fine Cooking.
She, also creates the recipes on the popular food blog Chez Us. Saveur has featured Chez Us as one of 50 Food Blogs You Should Be Reading as well as one of the Sites They Love. Be sure to read more about what they are cooking up over at Chez Us.
